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So many thanks to the friend who recommended this Canadian author to me. The writing is fresh and incisive, not to mention funny (though frequently in a bitter sort of way). These are not "neat" stories; often I'd come to the end of one and be brought up short. They require some rumination, which I ...
This novel gets the early nod for the 2013 EccentricMuse Skippy Dies Award (a novel starring adolescent males that I’m completely surprised I enjoyed as much as I did).Coady balances gritty realism with literary flourish to carve a portrait of a young man who grows up to become something other than ...
The whole conceit of making the novel a series of emails just seemed to have been forgotten after the initial few pages and the author just bulldozed the plot into subsequent pages as if it was more a narrated tale, with full blown dialogues. It just makes the whole point of Rank 'ranting' pointless...
Mick Croft was one of the few town punks who actually was a punk, not just a gangly, belligerent, functionally retarded teenager like the rest of us. He dealt drugs, of course, and brandished knives, of course, and had been expelled for kicking the gym teacher, a man with the unfortunate name of Mr...
Paradise Kiss is one of my favorite manga series. It has a great romance and I love Ai Yazawa's artistic style.
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